Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-18
FALSEH0ODS REFUTED.
Statements of Leading Banks and
Loan Companies Showing
That obligations Are Net Promptly and
The Malicious Stories Clrcu-
lated Against Wichita are
UnfOunded.

Ever since Wichita began to demon
strate to the world at large, that she was
destined to be great city and control
the trade of the great southwest, she has,
as each successive year made that fact
more clearly apparent, been made tar
get for abuse by all of the towns i'll Kan
sas, who vainlv sought to advertise them
selves at Wichita expense and have at
/ tempted to attract the attention OF
| Wichita aud obtain free advertising by
reason of controversy with the press of
| this city. Without reason OF conscience,
/ the newspapers of these towns have
written column after column abusing
| Wichita and the country around her.
| These statements have been wholly de
void of truth. repletc with bitter spleen,
and written for no other purpose than to
divert investments from Wichita to their
respective localities.
These malicious statements have becn
quoted and enlarged upou DV every pa
per in the more EASTERN portions OF the
country. which saw that the people OF
its section We're being attracted to Wich-
tia. When 10 such article as indicated
could be procured, the vivid imagination
of the otherwise unemployed editor was
set to work upon Omething-anything
to give slap at Wichta-and he con-
cOcted the stories that some fabulous
amount OF paper went to protest in
Wichita on given day or that there are
so many hundreds of thousands Of dol
lars OF over due interest on Wichita
loans. etc. etc Not satisfied with the
stories they publish themselves, the
editors OF some Kansas papers, who
are making ends meet by acting
as correspondents for reputable eastern
papers impose upon those papers and
abusing the confidence repOsed in them,
write articles grossly misrepresenting
Wichita in every conceivable particular.
One of the latest in point. of that class
is one L. a. $. Of LeayenwOrth, who's sent
a ridiculous lie to the Boston
journal recently and which the journal
very promptly and politely corrected
when the statements of its correspondent
were found To be untrue.
The jealousy of the towns attempting
to fight Wichita seems binding and de-
prives them Of the power OF Discerning
most patent fact. i. G., that ii such
things as they assert can be true of the
best city in Kansas, is not their condition
even worse:
They fail to realize. that what they
intend to hurt Wichita reacts upon them
and instead. simply hurts Kansas in
general and their own towns in
particular, and does not affect
v ichita. for the reason that Wichita
business is Of a character which does not /
depend upon any local condition. but is
constantly extending its limits. while
such is not the case with the other towns. /
They seem to forget that Wichita Is the
great magnet which attracts capital aud
immigration to the southwest, and that
just as Wichita prospers. 50 viii south .
western Kansas.
There are a number of good cities with |
III a radius of one hundred miles of /
Wichita which must have large city T
centrally located. as a financial /
commercial manufacturing. distrih.t::::-- 4
and educational center-and Wichita .
has by unrivalled development and grow
ing importance come TO be recognized as
that city.
In order that the actual truth in re-
gard to the stability Of investments and /
finances generally in Wichita and /
her territory NAV BE- known. and that 4
any uneasineSs on the part Of capitalists /
who hold these securities and any injury
to irrespective borrowers IN Kansas NAV
be averted. the board of trade of tins
CITY SEM ont inquiries To some of the
leading banks and loan agencies IN the
CITY. the answers to which ara published
for the information and guidance of
whom il may concern.
Fourth National BAnk-
WICHITA. KAN. Dee u. lSs7
4. ". oliver. Pr,s5den; Beard 81 Trade, wichita
GEXTIENFx Il find by looking up the
r,-cprg3> that he entire amount ~ paper
protested al his hank since June : 49,. i
- .. divided thus
I cechs- $1,000 $3.50 ---''F -.
Drafts --'------ ----- 80
Notes '----- ----a--'''
To,a, ........... x, -
Tyyrnt- thousand iollars Of the alpose
,,s,..tlft al note, j. represented III foE-r